2022 is closing with another positive result for the machinery, equipment and tools for the woodworking and furniture industry in Italy. Total production reached a value of Euro 2.646 billion, up by 4.6% compared to the previous record in 2021, according to Acimall, the association of Italian manufacturers of woodworking and furniture industry tech...

This semester, Sophia Caldas ’23 and her classmates worked together to design a café as part of a class assignment. Their classroom? A café in Italy. As they sipped coffee at a bottega in Tuscany, the students discussed everything from the plants that would decorate their hypothetical café to COVID protocols. They were just a short walk from the Un...

This season of “The White Lotus” may be over, but consumers seeking a hint of Italian luxury have a new spot to explore in Noho. Italian retailer LuisaViaRoma signed a 13,000-square-foot lease at 1 Bond Street, the New York Business Journal reported. It will be the online retailer’s first physical location in the U.S. The retailer will occupy 8,000...

“The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group has been working with the Italian Navy since they started training in 2021 for their deployment,” said Ishee. “The integration of ITS Caio Duilio, ITS Carabiniere, and ITS Andrea Doria into their team, as well as their work with ITS Cavour during recent multi-carrier operations highlights the importance an...

When Serge Brunschwig arrived in Rome almost five years ago to become Fendi’s chief executive, he was confronted with a conundrum: the company was struggling to find skilled workers. The problem left the 62-year-old McKinsey alum taken aback. After all, Italy has always been known for its artisans, from the violin-makers, textile designers and pain...

Italian appliance specialist Bertazzoni, which celebrates its 140th anniversary this year, has opened a new experience centre in the USA. The new centre, located in San Francisco’s design district, has been modelled on Casa Bertazzoni in Italy – the company’s global headquarters. Commenting on the move, chief operating officer and sixth-generation...

Glamour, with its qualities of mystery, realism and discretion, is notoriously difficult to define, but the photographs of 97-year-old Paolo Di Paolo provide definitive visual clues. For 14 years through the 50s and 60s, he photographed post-war Italy as it was, an agrarian society racing toward industrialisation. Di Paolo’s reportage, of luminous...

The Ferrari 812 GTS and Ferrari F8 Spider are some of the modern automotive world’s best offerings when it comes to Italian performance and driving pleasure, and they both add the unique and exhilarating top-down driving experience to high-performance engineering, unmatched style, and incomparable luxury. For those reasons, they are two cars that e...

CAM Studio kicked off the official launch of its new adjacent Poliform Studio Houston with an Italian-inspired fête. Four hundred guests from the design and architecture communities flocked to the luxury showroom to experience the elevated materials, detailed designs and elegant aesthetic for which Poliform is internationally recognized. As violini...

What began as a joint venture between Confindustria Ceramica and the Italian Trade Agency in 1994 to celebrate the work of North American architects and designers using Italian ceramic tile has evolved into a 30-year survey of the built environment and the creative ways in which tile can be used to achieve a designers’ vision. As the longest-runnin...